Plate holder for addressing machines



Aug. 1s, 1925. 1,550,259

J. P. JACKSON l PLATE `HOLDER- FOR ADDRESSING MACHINES Filed May s. 1924 JL IGLGUQ Home? @90,8 MGPlUaJrou `VAG- holder.

Patented Aug. 1s, i925.

UNITED STATES :rms r. Jackson, orI omesso, ILLINOIS.

PLATE HOLDER FOR ADDRESSING HAGHINEB.

Application nica may s, 1924. serial No. 710,108.

To all whom it may camera:

Be it known'that I, JAMES P. JACKSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county o Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plate Holders for Addressing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to plate holders such as are used in addressing machines and the like and has for its primary object to provide a more durable and convenient article of this type. v

'lhe other objects and advantages of m invention will be better understood by re erence to the following specification when considered in connection with the accompanying drawing illustrating a selected embodiment thereoit,- in which Fig. 1 is a plan view op the face of the FFig. 2 is a section on thel line 2.-2 of Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 4 is the same as Fig. 2, illustrating the method of withdrawal of the plate fro the holder.l

Referring to the `drawings, the :plate holder 10 will be, seen to resemble in general construction and arrangement the well known product of a large manufacturer of addressing apparatus and therefore I shall not attempt to desc ibethe same in detail except in so far a` point out the novel' and advantageous features incorporated therein by me.

The holder 10 is preferably formed of flexible sheet metal and provided with a series of lugs or osets 11 on its face to hold an identification card as 12. These cards are suliciently flexible to enable their edges to be inserted under such lugs or olfsets. Similar lugs, or offsets 13 are provided to overlie the side edges of the printing plate 14. This plate is slid endwise beneath the ylugs 13 and in the present embodiment may be inserted from either end .of the holder. Certain of these lugs or oil'- j 60 sets 11 and 13 are provided by bending the edges of thev holderwhile others are struck vfrom the body' of such holder.

Catches 15 are provid/ed to engage the ends of the plate 14 and position the same in is necessary to fullyy theholder. These`catches are preferablyr formed by cutting substantially U-shapedI slots as 16Y in the holder and striking u small projections as-17 in the llaps 18 forme by such slots. When the plate 14 is inserted in theholder, the advancing forward end edge of this plate will contact with the inclined outer face of the projection 17 and depress the flap 18. As soon as the rear end edge of the plate passes this projection, the resiliency of the metal of the flap will cause the rejection to snap lnto place behind such e ge and retain the plate in position in the holder, as indicated 1n Figs. 1 to 3. To remove thew plate from the holder, the outer end 19` of either lap is depressed by the yfinger nail of the operator or in any other suitable manner, moving the projection 17 on this Hap below the level of the plate, and permitting the plate to ej'fdrawn endwise thereover as indicate in Fig. 4, the direction of movement of the plate being indicated by an arrow.

holder. To obviate t is I have provided on the holder stops as 20 to limit the downward bending movement of the llaps. the present embodiment these stops are formed on the bent under end edgps 21 of the holder though it is obvious t ey may be provided in various other wa s. When the downward movement of the ap is limited` to substantially the necessary distance, the metal of the flap will maintain its elasticity indefinitely and proper locking of the plate is insured.

I claim as my invention:

1. A printing device of scribed, comprlsing a holder-plate slit to form an integral spring tongue provided with a shoulder projecting at one side of the holder-plate, the opposite side of the holderplate having an inturned edge portion bent across said opposite side of the plate and underlying t e free` end portion of the tongue, that portion of the inturned edge of the plate which underlies the tongue being depressed and constituting a stop for limiting depression of the tongue.

the e class de- 'l soV 2. A. printing device of the class deunderlying the free end portion of the scribed, comprising e' holder-plate slit to tongue, that portion of the inturned edge of form an integral spring' tongue rovided the plate which underlies the tongue consti- 10 with a shoulder projecting at one si e of the tuting a stop for limiting depression of the holder-plate, the opposite' side of the holdertongue. v plate having an inturned edge portion bent across said opposite side ofthe plate and JAMES P. JACKSON. 

